Minty
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- 26 Feb 2006
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osias said:A good point!! It's a double standard when someone says that the Japanese did the worst. It's easier to blame an outsider (particularly a loser). The Chinese gov is direnting the ppl's attention away from the attrocities that their leaders have done.
My history teacher (British) back in HS said, what Japan did was like nothing compared to what Mao Ze Dong did. (I think she was not particularly making favorable comments for Japan, because there were Chinese students, too. )
Doing less doesn't justify the killing itself, but the claim that the Japanese did the worst is meaningless.
I did not say they Japanese did the worst but probably the worst.
Far more Chinese died during the Cultural Revolution and far more Koreans died in the Korean war then during the Japanese Occupation of both those countries (or territories in China's case). The damage the Japanese did wasn't so much in loss of life, although that was considerable as well. The damage the Japanese did was in deconstructing Chinese and Korean cultures and tearing away at thousands of years of cherished traditions. Furthermore, they did not think of Chinese and Koreans as equals and thought Chinese and Koreans needed to be taken care of like children because Chinese and Koreans did not modernize as fast as they did. Sometimes they didn't even think of Chinese and Koreans in this manner and thought of Chinese and Koreans less as human beings and more as resources. For the Chinese they were used as live ginnie pigs for germ warfare. For Koreans they were either cannon fodder for the Imperial army or forced into extreme labor in the most remote parts of the empire. If you were a young Korean woman, you were a sex slave for the imperial army.
Evidently,Chinese and Koreans' rants fell on deaf ears in Japan the past 6 decades.
The Japanese author of " A Public Betrayed " reportedly said in an televised interview, younger generation Japanese politicians WANT TO FORGET ABOUT IT and TREAT IT AS A HISTORIC PAST NOT WORTH OF MENTIONING.
Many of today's Japanese ruling elites whose grandfathers were actively involved in WW II.They certainly would not want to REVEAL SINS of THEIR FOREBEARS.
Another issue is PSYCHOLOGICALLY ONE.